Every now and then a disease emerges that manages to transform a medical field. Such is
the case of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) in pancreatology. Over the last
20 years, this diagnosis has gradually permeated the thinking of physicians and researchers
involved in pancreatic diseases, and suddenly pancreatic symptoms have a broader
differential diagnosis, cysts and dilated pancreatic ducts have different implications, and
even pancreatic cancer is being seen through a different prism. The purpose of this mini …